5 Key amendments in the The Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022
The Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation published The Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022 on 2nd August 2022.The aim of the Bill is to further reform how personal injuries claims are dealt with in Ireland. Caroline McLaughlin, Partner in Callan Tansey Personal Injuries Litigation Department outlines 5 key amendments in […]
Benefits of Trauma Informed Practice
Trauma informed practice elevates client care skills and helps solicitors connect with their clients, creating better legal outcomes and more robust advocacy. Our Caroline McLaughlin, Partner in our Personal Injuries Litigation Department, participated in the recent Law Society of Ireland Summit on The Trauma Informed Practitioner. The aim of the Summit was to promote awareness […]
The Impact of the New Personal Injuries Guidelines
The new Personal Injuries Guidelines commenced on April 24 2021. Published by the Judicial Council, they set new guideline levels for personal injury compensation in Ireland. The objective was to bring greater consistency across personal injuries awards and to support greater use of the services provided by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB). As we […]
Making a Personal Injury Claim: What You Need To Know
The term personal injury also incorporates medical and dental accidents (which lead to numerous medical negligence cases every year) and conditions that are often classified as industrial disease cases ….
Could COVID-19 drive important changes in the Irish Court System?
The COVID 19 crisis has been massively disruptive to court sittings as it has to many other essential activities. High Court personal injuries sittings have been suspended since mid-March.
Man with ‘severe mental illness’ drove into traffic after brother warned he would kill or be killed, inquest hears
Gerard Roan had a long history of “severe and enduring mental illness” in the years up ….
Leading physio points to fresh approach for injury recovery
“When injuries happen people like me often underestimate the time it takes to return to play. We’re all human beings,” Liam Moffatt, Sports & Exercise Medicine Physiotherapist
Recent Changes in Personal Injuries Litigation
The PIAB (Amendment) Act 2019 which came into force on 2rd April, 2019 introduced new rules in relation to PIAB most crucially there is …
Caroline McLaughlin discusses recent changes in Personal Injury Cases on the Tommy Marren Show
(audio: CallanTanseyInterview.mp3)
Inquest into death of Mayo quarry worker adjourned
The inquest into the death of a man, following a workplace accident in Mayo, has been adjourned, after the company owner failed to turn up for scheduled proceedings today.